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Coders Challenged to Make Space Informatics Available

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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NASA Competition Challenges Coders to Make Available Huge Store of Space Informatics

“TopCoder(R), Inc., the world’s largest competitive Community of digital creators, in collaboration with the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) today announced the second phase of the Planetary Data System (PDS) Challenge series This is an open call competition to create new mobile and web-based apps that will provide easier access for the general public to the Planetary Data System’s vast 100 terabyte archive of images and data gleaned from planetary missions from the past 30 years.”

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